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English

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A jasper ball (2)

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).

Noun

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jasper (countable and uncountable, plural jaspers)

  1. (obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
  2. An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
  3. Jasperware pottery.
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Verb

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jasper (third-person singular simple present jaspers, present participle jaspering, simple past and past participle jaspered)

  1. (transitive) To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.

Etymology 2

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From the male personal name Jasper.

Noun

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jasper (plural jaspers)

  1. (UK, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp.
  2. (US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
    • 1957, Meredith Willson, “Ya Got Trouble”, in The Music Man:
      And list'nin to some big out-a-town jasper / Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin' / Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!
    • 1968, Charles Portis, “True Grit”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
      "I stood there through almost an hour of it before they called Rooster Cogburn to the stand. I had guessed wrong as to which one he was, picking out a younger and slighter man with a badge on his shirt. And I was surprised when an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of Grover Cleveland went up and was sworn."
    • 1975, “Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)”, in Nighthawks at the Diner, performed by Tom Waits:
      Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “The Light over the Ranges”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 110:
      “That jasper,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!”
  3. (Appalachia) A stranger.

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French

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Etymology

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    From jaspe +‎ -er.

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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    jasper

    1. to apply different colors of paint flowing together in order to make it look like jasper stone
      Jasper la tranche d’un livre. ― Jasper the edge of the book.

    Conjugation

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    Conjugation of jasper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
    infinitive simple jasper
    compound avoir + past participle
    present participle or gerund1 simple jaspant
    /ʒas.pɑ̃/
    compound ayant + past participle
    past participle jaspé
    /ʒas.pe/
    singular plural
    first second third first second third
    indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
    (simple
    tenses)         		present jaspe
    /ʒasp/     		jaspes
    /ʒasp/     		jaspe
    /ʒasp/     		jaspons
    /ʒas.pɔ̃/     		jaspez
    /ʒas.pe/     		jaspent
    /ʒasp/
    imperfect jaspais
    /ʒas.pɛ/     		jaspais
    /ʒas.pɛ/     		jaspait
    /ʒas.pɛ/     		jaspions
    /ʒas.pjɔ̃/     		jaspiez
    /ʒas.pje/     		jaspaient
    /ʒas.pɛ/
    past historic2 jaspai
    /ʒas.pe/     		jaspas
    /ʒas.pa/     		jaspa
    /ʒas.pa/     		jaspâmes
    /ʒas.pam/     		jaspâtes
    /ʒas.pat/     		jaspèrent
    /ʒas.pɛʁ/
    future jasperai
    /ʒas.pə.ʁe/     		jasperas
    /ʒas.pə.ʁa/     		jaspera
    /ʒas.pə.ʁa/     		jasperons
    /ʒas.pə.ʁɔ̃/     		jasperez
    /ʒas.pə.ʁe/     		jasperont
    /ʒas.pə.ʁɔ̃/
    conditional jasperais
    /ʒas.pə.ʁɛ/     		jasperais
    /ʒas.pə.ʁɛ/     		jasperait
    /ʒas.pə.ʁɛ/     		jasperions
    /ʒas.pə.ʁjɔ̃/     		jasperiez
    /ʒas.pə.ʁje/     		jasperaient
    /ʒas.pə.ʁɛ/
    (compound
    tenses)         		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
    pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
    past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
    future perfect future of avoir + past participle
    conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
    subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
    (simple
    tenses)         		present jaspe
    /ʒasp/     		jaspes
    /ʒasp/     		jaspe
    /ʒasp/     		jaspions
    /ʒas.pjɔ̃/     		jaspiez
    /ʒas.pje/     		jaspent
    /ʒasp/
    imperfect2 jaspasse
    /ʒas.pas/     		jaspasses
    /ʒas.pas/     		jaspât
    /ʒas.pa/     		jaspassions
    /ʒas.pa.sjɔ̃/     		jaspassiez
    /ʒas.pa.sje/     		jaspassent
    /ʒas.pas/
    (compound
    tenses)         		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
    pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
    imperative – tu – nous vous –
    simple — jaspe
    /ʒasp/     		— jaspons
    /ʒas.pɔ̃/     		jaspez
    /ʒas.pe/     		—
    compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
    1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
    2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
    past historic → present perfect
    past anterior → pluperfect
    imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
    pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

    (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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